A DUTCH DELFT TULIPIERE, (tulpenvaasje), painted in colours, the flattened heartshaped body decorated to the front with dame Fortuna holding a flowerbranch and a cornucopia, surrounded by scattered flowers, further flowers to the reverse, modelled with five tubular openings to the shoulders, two grotesque animal handles supporting them, the front with three tubular openings, on pedestal sloping rectangular base (repaired), marked for de porceleyne schotel, early 18th Century

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A DUTCH DELFT TULIPIERE, (tulpenvaasje), painted in colours, the flattened heartshaped body decorated to the front with dame Fortuna holding a flowerbranch and a cornucopia, surrounded by scattered flowers, further flowers to the reverse, modelled with five tubular openings to the shoulders, two grotesque animal handles supporting them, the front with three tubular openings, on pedestal sloping rectangular base (repaired), marked for de porceleyne schotel, early 18th Century
21.5 cm wide

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Lot Essay

C.f H. Morley Fletcher and R. Mc Ilroy, Christie's pictorial history of European pottery, 1984 p. 215 ill. 4 for a similar tulipvase from the collection A. Vromen.

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